Per Mayor Lee Kyriacou’s recommended appointment of David Ross to Beacon’s Board of Assessment Review, a board David no longer serves on since being discovered with having a forgiving friendship and correspondence with sexual predator and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, David was the “finance guy,” as Mayor Kyriacou referred to him, for the Southern Dutchess Country Club (SDCC) in Beacon on Wolcott Avenue. Per the SDCC’s website, David was the Vice President and Chairman.
On Sunday, A Little Beacon Blog emailed the email listed next to David’s name on that website to inquire if he was still on the board after he resigned from his Chair position of the MFA art practice program at New York’s School of Visual Arts (SVA), as reported by ARTNews. ALBB did not receive a response as of Monday evening, the night of the City Council Meeting, where ALBB asked the City Council if David had resigned from Beacon’s local assessment board.
In an article reported on ALBB’s Facebook reporting on the potential for David to no longer be on Beacon’s Board of Assessment Review, the Southern Dutchess Country Club was mentioned as reference. The evening after the City Council Meeting where it was revealed that David was no longer on that board, Geoffrey Robillard, a person identifying himself as a “lifetime member” who “sits on the board” of SDCC, insisted via Facebook Comment that David did not hold those positions.
Geoffrey commented at Facebook: “First of all get your facts straight! David is not nor ever has been SDCC President and or chairman! You want to spew crap take time to fact check! It isn’t hard.”
Upon review, ALBB corrected the publishing of the President position, as the SDCC listed David as Vice President and Chairman. ALBB responded to Geoffrey that all articles had shown screenshots of David’s position on the board, and linked to ALBB’s original article that quoted Mayor Kyriacou verbatim from the October 9, 2025 City Council Meeting where he identified David as being linked with SDCC as “the finance guy.”
Geoffrey responded: “I sit on the Board and am a lifetime member and I am telling you he is not President or Chairman nor ever has been.”
A few hours later, the email address from the SDCC website, which is membership@southerndutchesscc.com, responded to ALBB’s initial email, confirming that David had been on the club board:
Hi Katie
David has resigned from the board of SDCC.
Sdcc B.O.D.
ALBB responded:
Hello,
Thank you. Can you tell me who you are that is responding.
Screenshot as of 3-4-2026 11:30am of Directors and Officers at the Southern Dutchess Country Club on Wolcott Avenue.
Can you confirm: 1. Your name. 2. What position on the board David Ross held.
The writer responded that he is Barry Winter, the President of the club.
Barry later confirmed that David was the Membership Chairman, and held no other board positions.
ALBB pressed one more time for confirmation on why David’s name was listed as Vice President on their website. Barry responded: “Yes I forgot he was VP. The VP doesn’t really do anything. I have updated the web page and Dave is no longer listed. At our next board meeting we will elect a new VP and membership chairman. For now I'm filling the membership chair role.”
After being appointed by Mayor Lee Kyriacou in October 2025, David Ross, a citizen of Beacon; husband to former City Council Member Peggy Ross who served with Mayor Lee on Council years prior; widely-known director of contemporary American museums nationwide; who was found with multiple correspondences in the Epstein Files after the January 30th, 2026 drop; is no longer on the Board of Assessment Review for the City of Beacon, the City’s attorney Nick Ward-Willis confirmed after A Little Beacon Blog called in during the second Public Comment opportunity of the evening to ask who resigned from the once full board to create two new vacancies so quickly that the City voted on that night with no prior notification or announcement of vacancy to the public.
Otherwise, the City of Beacon was not going to mention David’s departure from the Board.
Katie of ALBB asked: “Can you tell me, for the Board of Assessment Review, who are the two people who resigned? The last time we had nominations was in October 9th, 2025, which was Michele Rios, a realtor, and David Ross, curator of museums, and a board member here at the Southern Duchess Country Club, who was also recently found in the Epstein Files and resigned his position elsewhere,” referring to David’s resignation of his position as chair of the MFA Art Practice Program at New York’s School of Visual Arts (SVA) after ARTNews broke the story of his relationship and correspondences with Epstein.
“Can you tell us who resigned, when they resigned, and why they resigned, and also, why there was no public announcement of these two vacancies.”
Attorney Nick took over answering. He neither confirmed or denied that David Ross resigned, saying: “So, we don't go into details on personnel matters. The two individuals who served before were Mr. Ross and Mr. Palisi, I believe. That's generally all we provide.”
Mayor Kyriacou began to respond: “Um so…”
Attorney Nick was swift to cut him off, repeating his previous statement: “So that’s generally all that we provide.”
Mayor Kyriacou wanted to continue, but restrained himself, saying: “Okay,” with a pause. “And…Okay. I’ll stop there.”
Attorney Nick concluded: “Yeah.”
City Administrator Chris White picked up the response: “Well, and he didn’t resign. He passed away.” To which Attorney Nick responded “Well…Yes,” without referring to which former board member they were referring to.
City Administrator Chris continued: “So Bobby Palisi, for those...” implying he was going to describe who Bobby Palisi was for those who did not know. “Very involved in softball. Life member of Mase [Hook and Ladder]. We had the Memorial Bunting on the firehouse for his fire service.” Bobby was also a brother-in-law of Michele Rios, his wife’s sister, who is also on the Board of Assessment Review.
Mayor Kyriacou picked up the description: "That's the dark bunting when you were, if you were passing by and you're wondering what that was. That was Bobby."
Mayor Kyriacou wanted to continue again, but held back. "Um...So...And then...Um...Yeah. Okay." And the meeting ended.
Alright. It’s a Snow Day ☃️ in Beacon, so we are going to bring you a news sources on the Zionist inspired U.S./Israel unprovoked and illegal attack on Iran, that Iran is now responding to and defending itself from while ALBB finishes her Media Kit that explains how we work and how you can reach our readers.
ALBB also has client videos to stitch together to bring you into local businesses like HVAC/Heating/Cooling company Shelter Air 🌱 and Cigar on Main to see how they work and how you can celebrate and benefit from them.
Also, an amAzing interview with Andrameda who performs in drag 💃🏽 at The Roosevelt Bar at the Hudson Valley Food Hall every Friday night. But first, home-brewed coffee ☕️from Kitchen and Coffee from beans that may be new (or new to ALBB) and the house-brand No. Six Depot, “The Sun Also Rises,” available from @kitchen.coffee.beacon . Followed by the protein powder shake from Health in Color and the Chocolate and Mushroom Elixir from 4 Wall Farm.
We will also be regretting not cleaning or replacing the carburetor on the snow blower.
Editorial Note: Video recap is posted below. Scroll down after you read.
Quick meeting recap of tonight’s City Council meeting, which included the - once again - un-publicized appointments of 2 new board members to the Board of Assessment Review to an already full board.
This would have meant that 2 board members were no longer on the board for some reason. David Ross, who was appointed on October 9, 2025 but was found in the Epstein Files after the January 30th 2026 dump by ARTNews and later Hyperallergic , was one of the appointees. After his multiple emails were revealed, which included travel, David resigned from his position as chair of the MFA Art Practice Program at New York’s School of Visual Arts (SVA). The school made a statement of this.
The City of Beacon did not make a statement about his resignation from the Board of Assessment Review. Not last week when it was hinted by a citizen during Public Comment that there was a possibility of a vacancy, and not this evening when 2 new appointees were presented and voted upon.
Not hearing who resigned, ALBB called in to the second round of Public Comment to ask who was no longer on the board. City Attorney Nick Ward-Willis quickly took over to answer, stating that David Ross did resign. The Mayor shifted in his seat a few times and added no additional words. City Administrator Chris White said the the second person who was no longer on the board due to their death was Robert Palisi, who served on the board for 10 years and passed away this February.
Had the question not been asked during the second opportunity for Public Comment, the resignation of David Ross presumably because of his correspondence in the Epstein Files, would so far, have gone unspoken on public record.
Two weeks ago, A Little Beacon Blog reported that speculation was dropped in the Public Comment section of the 2/17/2026 City Council Meeting that David Ross, the newly appointed board member for Beacon’s Board of Assessment Review (the board who reviews property assessment grievances once a year and is one of the only boards required by New York State), may become a topic of interest after it surfaced that Board Member David Ross, who is better known as a museum director for major contemporary art museums like the Whitney Museum of American Art, and lives in Beacon, resigned from his position as chair of the MFA Art Practice Program at New York’s School of Visual Arts (SVA) after ARTNews broke the story that David had a years long friendship and travel visits with the convicted pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in the Epstein Files.
ALBB emailed David to ask if he was still on Beacon's Board of Assessment Review, as well as Southern Dutchess Country Club's board as president and chairman, but received no response.
This week (tonight), 2 new appointments for Beacon’s Board of Assessment Review on Beacon’s City Council Meeting Agenda for 2/2/2026 are scheduled, which have once again not been publicized in advance. This is a 5 member board, and no resignations have been publicly announced since the board was completely appointed to in October 2025.
The first time the appointments were not publicized was in October 2025 to re-appoint real estate agent Michele Rios, and bring on David Ross for the first time. During that meeting, Mayor Lee Kyriacou hardly gave David Ross any introduction at all, and ushered in both appointees. But not before members of the City Council questioned the process of submitting ethics complaints about any board member. Read the entire (short) transcript of that meeting here at ALBBto see what was asked and how during that meeting.
Screenshot of the City of Beacon’s Board of Assessment Review page without David Ross’ name on it, but with a different application link.
ALBB emailed David Ross to ask him if he was still on Beacon’s Board of Assessment Review following his MFA resignation, via his Southern Dutchess Country Club email, where he is still listed as the President and Chairman on the website of that club on Wolcott Avenue. David has not yet replied.
As of today, February 2, 2026, David is not listed on the City of Beacon’s website as being on the board to which he was appointed to on October 9, 2025.
According to the WayBack Machine, as of November 15, 2025, David had also not yet been added to the website. However, the link on how to apply has since been updated.
The public has the opportunity to grieve their properties in May of each year.
It was discovered during the first appointment in October 2025 that should people wish to file a complaint about a board member, there is no Board of Ethics Committee in Beacon. Citizens must file a complaint with Dutchess County’s Board of Ethics Committee, of which Kathy Martin is a member of that 5 person board. Kathy Martin is the Assessor for the City of Beacon, who Beacon’s Board of Assessment Review corresponds with. Kathy is also the Mayor of the Village of Fishkill, and is the Assessor for the Town of East Fishkill, a shared salary paid to her by the City of Beacon and the Town of East Fishkill.
David Ross is the husband of Peggy Ross, who served on Beacon’s City Council years prior. This was not mentioned the evening of David’s appointment to the Assessment Review Board, nor was David’s real estate interests in renovating old factories to become private contemporary art museums with his architect friend and/or consulting client William Ehrlich who owned 20 properties at the time.
Prayers to the families of the victims, and to the community going through it.
Popping out to amplify what Xavier Conley @ebonywarriorstudios1 said about this incident. He is a prolific and very sharp cultural commentator on whiteness and Black lives.
@thelioninthesuit: "Property of Allah? What in the temu shooter is this? Shein Bomber instead of Sheinbaum"
@michael_houk: "The CIA is completely out of ideas. 😂"
@e70_69was_taken: "Well we'll just sprinkle some crack and a Qur'an on him"
@adair_wit_tha_hair: "This is what happens when they remove DEI in the CIA😂"
@blackmanglass: "Once I saw the “property of Allah “ I knew that shit was fake asf 😆🤣 shit is so racially charged it’s literally like a Islamophobic Straight outta Compton hoodie 😭😭"
@jiggidyjosh: "And his shirt is in English 😂"
@pal_christians: "As Palestinian Christians, thank you for differentiating Christian from Christian nationalist 🙏🏽"
@boogiewomanrae: "Muslims do NOT do this 💀💀 My partner is an Imam, and humility is the POINT. They’re not a fanbase like Christians; they’re VERY respectful people towards their religious figures."
Assal Rad, DAWN Fellow and Scholar of modern Middle East history.
Editorial Note: This article contains videos from thought leaders ALBB has been following since the 2023 genocide of Palestinians. It also includes commentary from other accounts who published those videos.
Find videos from Afghan War Veteran Greg Stoker, American journalist Ana Kasparian of Young Turks, journalists Ahmed Eldin and Samira Mohyeddin, Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, economist Jeffrey Sachs, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Iranian Leftist News Creator Ariana Jasmine, New York based Iranian glassblower glassqueenz, Ciara Moez, AnalystNews, BTNewsroom, ClassWarNews, The Andrey_x, The Drey Dossier, and foolish anchors on NBC.
The U.S. and Israeli led attack on Iran finally happened. On a Saturday morning. Consistent with other extra brutal attacks we saw Israel carry out on Palestinians during the escalated and publicized time of their genocide of Palestinians. It was always the weekend, when we were away at bouncy houses or birthday parties. Those of us who were watching would check socials and see teenagers being melted alive in tents outside of hospitals from white phosphorous.
More than a few of you have said: “Well, I feel safe and protected, so this form of war is necessary and I don’t mind and everyone hates us so we might as well.”
Got it. Well. It’s pretty clear why everybody hates us. It’s because when you go in and attack a country unprovoked, especially a country who has no nuclear weapon, and try to manhandle it to behave as you want, you will get resistance and response. The only ones benefiting from this are those employed in the weapons manufacturing industry here in the states who are making and shipping this stuff out, as it’s job security, and the top smidge percent who rides this out in the stock market and profits that way.
Saturday’s Attack Was religious, Says CNN’s Israeli Reporter
Turns out that it wasn’t brunch Israel and the U.S. wanted to bomb to. It was religious reference. Bombs began falling at 8am Tehran time. CNN’s Israeli reporter Tal Shallev reported her observation of the timing, saying: “The timing of the US and Israeli attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referenced the upcoming holiday of Purim in his first statement: ‘2,500 years ago, in ancient Persia, a tyrant rose against us with the very same goal, to utterly destroy our people,’ Netanyahu said of the story, which takes place in what is now Iran. ‘Today as well, on Purim, the lot has fallen, and in the end this evil regime will fall too.’”
The reporter continued: “The passage from the book of Deuteronomy commands the ancient Israelites to remember an unprovoked attack by the nation of Amalek, located in modern-day Sinai and southern Israel, and to eradicate the memory of Amalek once the Israelites are settled in their land.
“The passage is read publicly before Purim to fulfill what Jews consider the mitzvah – or commandment – of remembering Amalek as Israel’s achetypical enemy. Amalek is often referenced as an historical enemy of the Jewish people, and Netanyahu invoked it shortly after the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.”
ALBB wants to stress that this logic does not speak for all Jews. But usually speaks for Zionists.
Right Away, U.s. and Israel Targeted A Girl’s School, Killing Over 100 civilians so far
We saw during the two years of the genocide, Israel targets schools, hospitals and other protected places. In August 2025, Aljezeera reported that Israel killed an average of 28 children per day in Palestine, for a known total of at least 18,000 dead children since the start of the genocide. Palestinian children are often targeted and kidnapped by Israeli military and held in Israeli prisons, often without charges.
Since the release of the Epstein Files in America, there has emerged reignighted speculation of killing - and eating - children. The targeted killing of Iranian children on Saturday is on brand with all of this. Reported by ArtNet: “Epstein’s assistant, Sarah Kellen sent an email in July 2011 asking an employee named Rich Barnett to ‘Fedex the painting he had made of the Massacre of the Innocents to the ranch [in New Mexico]. It’s the large 9’x9′ canvas that we had rolled out for him to see in the entry way where they are killing babies.’”
Journalist Ahmed Eldin responded to the news of the killing of the Iranian school girls the day it happened:
In his Instagram caption, Ahmed reported: “At least 85 children were reportedly killed after a joint U.S.–Israeli strike hit a elementary school in Minab, Iran.
“Washington and Tel Aviv call it ‘preemptive.’ They say they’re targeting the regime, not civilians. But a classroom is not a missile launcher.
“Just days earlier, Oman’s foreign minister indicated Tehran had accepted major U.S. demands in nuclear negotiations. When ceasefire talks advanced in Doha last year, Israel carried out a strike there during active negotiations. Now diplomacy appears to move — and bombs fall again.
“That is a pattern.
“We’ve heard the language of ‘preemption’ before — in Iraq in 2003. The region is still living with the consequences.
“Children, schools, and civilians are protected under international law. If they become acceptable targets under the banner of regime change and deterrence, no one is safer.
Was The Bombing For Regime Change? These Anti-Imperialists, Weapons Inspector And Economist Say No
Greg Stoker is a veteran from America’s invasion of Afghanistan, which he repeatedly says is an incorrectly and misleadingly named “War on Terror” for American propaganda. He is a fourth generation veteran, and the co-host of the podcast Colonial Outcasts.
Greg says: “From the Imperial Perspective this is NOT a regime change operation, it is a Balkanization Operation since regime change is not possible at this time. Down with the empire.”
Rising Pilgrim published the American journalist Ana Kasparian from The Young Turks, and wrote this: “🔴 The Iraq War remains one of the most sobering chapters in modern American military history, marked by a profound human cost. Between the initial invasion in 2003 and the formal conclusion of major operations, the United States suffered 4,492 military fatalities, with an additional 32,222 service members wounded in action. These figures, however, only tell part of the story; they do not fully account for the thousands of veterans who returned with ‘invisible wounds,’ such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), or the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians who lost their lives. The conflict served as a stark reminder that while ‘Mission Accomplished’ can be declared on a carrier deck, the reality of asymmetric warfare and nation-building is often a decade-long endeavor with no clear exit strategy.
”Avoiding a similar entanglement with Iran requires a shift from reactionary interventionism toward strategic diplomacy and realistic containment. Critics of military escalation argue that Iran is a significantly more formidable opponent than 2003-era Iraq, boasting a larger population, more rugged geography, and a sophisticated network of regional proxies. A kinetic conflict would likely destabilize the global energy market and ignite a theater-wide war that the U.S. public has little appetite for. Rather than repeating the "intelligence failures" and "regime change" rhetoric that defined the Iraq era, the U.S. must prioritize multilateral agreements and economic leverage. Learning from the past means recognizing that a war started with ease is rarely finished with the same simplicity.
Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter delivered this message: “Iranian Missiles Give Them Fighting Chance To Hit Israel And Outlast Trump’s Political Will”
AnalystNews said this, when publishing the opinion of the economist Jeffrey Sachs: “The United States has started a brazen and unprovoked war of aggression against Iran because Israel told it to, according to American economist Jeffrey Sachs: ‘It may be because of what's in the Epstein files ... it may be blackmail, it may be corruption ... but it is not about America's interests.’"
Part of why ALBB publishes anti-imperialist global news is because as a kid during the Iraq War, that always felt so wrong and unnecessary. Now with a means to express, publishing and amplifying can happen. Beacon is threaded with several diasporas, so we cater to those readers as well.
Through Palestinian coverage, the complicity of the U.S. media became very obvious, irresponsible and damaging to the world. Therefore, this local outlet is publishing the information also, since there is a void.
BTNewsroom published this naive, entitled and ridiculous question from NBC anchors to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi when asking why U.S. bases were targeted in retaliation: Iran’s Foreign Minister answered calmly: “We are under attack from the U.S. This is obvious. This is a very simple fact." He went on to explain why they have the right to defend themselves.
When asked by the NBC anchors how strikes on U.S. bases could be “justified,” the Iranian Foreign Minister had to explain what is obvious to most, which is that Iran has the right to defend itself.
Below is a look at vintage CNN with Dana Bash and Wolf Blitzer, published by ClassWarNews, who said: “For context, Wolf Blitzer was a former AIPAC researcher and used to be the editor of two magazines run by AIPAC’s founder that took hard-line pro-Israel stances like supporting Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.
“Dana Bash was on the Board of Trustees for the pro-Zionist Jewish Women International organization. And was married to CIA Chief of Staff / Department of Defense Chief of Staff, Jeremy Bash.
“It isn't that their corporate overlords have to censor them and tell them what to say. Its that if they didn't believe the things they believed then they wouldn't have been hired in the first place.”
What Some Iranians Are Saying
Upon learning that the Supreme Leader was dead, this local-ish New York based glass blower who has been featured on ALBB before demonstrated her feelings in burning hot glass.
Meanwhile, In Palestine:
The Andrey.X reported: “EYES ON THE WEST BANK
An (incomplete) list of settler and IDF attacks in the past two days, since the beginning of the Israel-Iran war:
In Duma (Nablus) the settlers launched an attack, armed with pepper spray and sticks, injuring several Palestinians and solidarity activists; the IDF arrived on the scene, arrested four Palestinians including a 10 year old child, and a journalist.
In Qusra (Nablus) the settlers raided the village and assaulted Palestinians, the next day after nearly killing two human rights activists there.
In Qwawais (Masafer Yatta), settlers opened fire on Palestinian children while they were gathering wild plants on the hills.
In Sfai (Masafer Yatta), settlers shot a Palestinian with live ammunition; then the IDF invaded and arrested Palestinians.
In Taybe (Ramallah) settlers and army stole two Palestinian horses.
In al-Farsiya (Jordan Valley) settlers stoned a house and threw a tear gas grenade into the house in the middle of the night.
All over the West Bank the IDF shut down checkpoints, leaving entire communities cut off from the outside world
And in Data science, Medicaid and Billionaires News During This Iranian Attack
The Drey Dossier reports: “You can call me big brother’s bigger brother.”
Good Morning!!
It is sunny outside. The grass is muddy from slowly absorbing melted snow, and the farmers and makers are happy to be popped up at the Cold Spring Farmer's Market today Saturday.
Meanwhile, the United States and Israel have decided to try to hamper our Saturdays by once again staging mass chaos in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East, which includes the United States bombing a girls elementary school, killing over 50 children reportedly. You can get the report and analysis from Ahmed Eldin.
A Planetary Parade of 6 planets aligning in a curved line occurs tonight, reports The Guardian. These planets include Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus. In Beacon at the Howland Cultural Center, the Howland Chamber Music Circle is performing "The Planets" at 5:30pm. Details on that is below in ALBB's Kids Classes Guide section.
PS: Don't miss the "Murder She Wrote: Crime Fiction Writing Workshop" from Beacon LitFest. Find it below in the Adult Classes section.
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The Prom Pop-Up From The Howland Library Is Back: Seeking Donations Of Gently Used Prom Attire
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Mental Health First Aid Training When: Thursday, March 5, 2026 Time: 9:30am-6pm Price: Free. Pre-Registration is Required
Join Nuvance Health for a free Adult Mental Health First Aid training, open to the public and staff. This skills-based course teaches participants how to identify, understand, and respond to mental health and substance use challenges. Learners will complete a short prereading assignment online before the class session, then practice skills through discussion and activities. Topics include risk factors and warning signs, information on depression, anxiety, trauma, psychosis, and addiction disorders, and a 5-step action plan to help someone in crisis. Upon successful completion of all requirements, participants will receive a certificate from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. Register >
Murder She Wrote: Crime Fiction Writing Workshop When: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm Price: $52.79 (tickets include food, beverages, writing, materials and more.
Cynthia Weiner has had a long career writing and teaching fiction. Her short stories have been published in Ploughshares, The Sun, and Epiphany, and her story, "Boyfriends," was awarded a Pushcart Prize. And her 2025 novel, A Gorgeous Excitement, became an instant NYT bestseller. She is also the assistant director of The Writers Studio in New York City and a top notch writing instructor. Get your ticket soon for our upcoming Crime Writing intensive (and dinner!). Your attendence helps support our mission and bring our June 2026 Litfest to life! Last time we featured Author Cynthia Weiner of NY Writers Studio, the workshop sold out! This is a reprise with ALL NEW MATERIAL! Buy Tickets >
Explore Music, Art, and Astronomy with Gustav Holst’s The Planets! Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026 Time: 5:30pm Price: Children FREE / Adults $15 Location: Howland Cultural Center, 477 Main Street, Beacon, NY
Join the Howland Chamber Music Circle’s Classics for Kids series for a vibrant performance of Holst’s The Planets, arranged for six brass players and piano. Planet lanterns created by local children through Compass Arts will brighten the space, and the program will be narrated with fun facts about each planet.
This engaging event brings together music, creativity, and science—perfect for inspiring curiosity in audiences of all ages.
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Li’l Dragons Karate class (ages 4-6) meets 3 times per week:
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The Prom Pop-Up From The Howland Library Is Back: Seeking Donations Of Gently Used Prom Attire
The Free Prom Pop-Up Boutique for High School students is back at Beacon's Howland Public Library. Opportunity is open now to donate amazing, unusual, gently-used, like-new prom attire in female and male style through March 20th.
"We're collecting stylists formalwear that is perfect for Prom Night," says the Beacon Library on their flyer. This includes gowns, cocktail dresses, suit jackets, vets & pants, and accessories including bow-ties, cummerbunds, and suspenders.
Suspenders!!
The deadline to donate is March 20th.
The live Prom Pop-Up will be held on three different dates from 12-4pm: April 4, 11 and 12.
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The 27th Annual Woodstock Film Festival (WFF) running October 14-18, 2026 has officially opened submissions for this year. Named by Moviemaker Magazine as one of the “Top 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee,” WFF is an Oscar®-qualifying festival in Live Action Short, Animated Short, and Documentary Short categories.
Ethan Hawke calls it “a festival that isn't trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking.”
This year introduces a new regional category — Made in the Hudson Valley — spotlighting films shot or produced in the region.
In keeping with Woodstock’s legacy rooted in art, music, activism, and creative experimentation—submitted films may also be considered for Woodstock Legacy Programming.
If the film explores themes of art or artists (in any medium), music or music videos, experimental work, activism, or environmentalism, the festival asks filmmakers to note this in their application for special consideration.
Film Categories Include:
Narrative Feature – Documentary Feature Short Narrative – Short Documentary – Animated Short Student Short – Student Short Animation
Across a range of juried competitive categories, the Woodstock Film Festival offers prizes including:
Best Narrative Feature* Best Documentary Feature Ultra Indie Award* Changemaker Award* Laurent Rejto Made in the Hudson Valley Award Haskell Wexler Award for Best Cinematography Best Narrative Short Best Documentary Short Best Student Short Best Animated Short Best Editing Award for Narrative & Doc Features Audience Award for Narrative & Doc Features
*Eligible to receive cash prices.
For more information, please visit our FilmFreeway page: filmfreeway.com/WoodstockFilmFestival.
Different people have begun producing lists of things to do in Beacon. The newest resource has been created by the people who are posting flyers to the empty Rite Aid windows, as it sits dormant waiting for its new tenant. People can be seen casually walking by the flyers, taking stock of different classes they can take, or dances they can attend.
HUDSY, a nonprofit film production company dedicated to educating and connecting communities through independent filmmaking, is launching their of 250 Acts of Positive Change, a year-long community-led movement and documentary film project inspired by the 250th anniversary of the United States.
Through their 250 Acts of Positive Change project, HUDSY will spotlight what is happening right now: the everyday people strengthening their communities through service, creativity, healing, justice, and connection.
About The Mini-Documentaries
Throughout the year, HUDSY will document and showcase 250 tangible acts of positive change taking place across the region. Each act, whether large or small, will be captured in a short 1-3 minute film and shared publicly through HUDSY’s website, YouTube channel, and social platforms, creating a living archive of local impact. The films will be produced by HUDSY’s professional production team alongside the eight participants in its paid seven-month Filmmaker Apprenticeship Program, providing hands-on workforce training while documenting stories that strengthen the region.
“In a time when division often dominates headlines, we want to turn the camera toward the helpers, the artists, the organizers, the healers, the people quietly doing uplifting and impactful work,” said Laura Kandel, Executive Director of Operations at HUDSY. “This project is our way of asking: What if celebrating our country meant celebrating the people actively making it better?”
How To Apply
Tell HUDSY how you or someone you recommend makes an impact in the areas of service, creativity, healing, justice, or connection. Include pictures if you have, and/or links to samples of you on film doing this.
HUDSY is inviting Hudson Valley residents to help shape the movement by:
Recommending themselves and sharing their own act of positive change
Recommending individuals, groups, or organizations making a difference
Joining HUDSY at regional filming locations to share short interview stories
Selected acts will be filmed as part of the official series, with additional on-the-spot interviews recorded throughout the region at locations that will be periodically announced through HUDSY’s newsletter and social media channels.
“Positive change doesn’t have to be large-scale to be meaningful,” said Angel Gates Fonseca, Executive Director of Production at HUDSY. “Sometimes it’s a neighbor organizing meals, a teacher starting a creative program, or a volunteer showing up week after week. These stories matter. They deserve to be documented and shared.”
By shifting the focus of the 250th anniversary toward the good happening now, HUDSY hopes to create a time capsule of what community leadership looks like today and inspire others to take action.
To recommend an act of positive change or learn more, visit: hudsy.org/250acts
About HUDSY
HUDSY is a nonprofit film production company founded in 2017 with a mission to educate and connect communities through the power of independent filmmaking. We bring people together around stories that matter by making films that create positive change, running a paid seven-month Filmmaker Apprentice Program, and hosting community events. www.hudsy.org
Residential trash pickup is running on a 1-day delayed schedule as a result of Monday’s snowstorm, Royal Carting, which is now a division of Casella Sanitation, confirmed to A Little Beacon Blog on Tuesday.
Pictures of snow covered fire hydrants, provided by the Beacon Fire Department, showing what a properly dug out hydrant looks like. They ask the community to help dig them out.
Fire hydrants will also need dug out again by community members to help the Beacon Fire Department. While the Fire Department dug out several fire hydrants last snowstorm, the public was asked to help dig. There are 600 public fire hydrants in the City of Beacon.
“We once again ask City residents to please shovel and remove snow away from hydrants in or close to your property!” the City of Beacon Fire Department said via their Facebook page.
“…If you can’t see the hydrant, that means we can’t either! This will save us valuable time that may save your life in the event of a fire!”
For those who have dug out, good job. Space is running out for where to put the snow in residential areas. One foot is expected again for next week. Get some Epsom salt for your bath soak.
It’s snowing again in Beacon, and the local Internet is not having it. A Little Beacon Blog didn’t even feel like opening up the screen door to get a photo. Most vendors at the Beacon Farmer’s Market called out Sunday morning as light sleet fell intermittently, not wanting to chance the return home should more precipitation have arrived. Lines at the cashier at Key Food at 10:30am were winding back into the isles; not with a panic vibe, but people were getting what people were getting.
New York’s Governor Hochul declared a State of Emergency for Dutchess and surrounding counties. Dutchess County banned all non-essential road travel beginning Sunday evening. Beacon City School’s called for a school closure for Monday, and kids began planning their sleepover nights.
The flower shop Flora’s response to the snow on Sunday.
The City Of Beacon robo-called everyone to remind the public not to park on any street when over 2” of snow falls so that plows can get through. Both Beacon’s Highway and Water Departments were out by at least 11pm plowing, and then again in the early hours, as snow continued to fall as predicted.
By sunrise, the City of Beacon robo-called again to let the public know that Dutchess County had extended the weather travel ban to 4pm Monday, that Town Hall and the Recreation Center would be closed, and there would be no bus service.
As the people of Beacon rolled out of bed, they began posting their response feelings to Instagram. The flower shop Flora had posted last evening, nearly throwing in the towel on the winter retail season.
“The Melody of Melting” poem by Katie Hellmuth.
When the first dumping of two feet of snow started melting, A Little Beacon Blog wrote a poem about what it sounded like, called “The Melody Of Melting.” It was an encouraging time. Nothing like the resulting dehydrated snow that has been slowly evaporating under gray skies in below freezing temperatures, resembling leftover Dairy Queen ice-cream cake that mysteriously does not melt.
Another reader posted a twinkling picture of her shed, followed by a quietly snowy poem by Mary Oliver about an owl, and then reported in that she’d measured 8” so far in her Beacon backyard.
Meanwhile, kissing videos and interviews with Wuthering Heights stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are flooding the Instagram, so we have plenty to watch.
Meanwhile…for those of us following The Epst Files, with a side dish of the tragic and possibly distractionary kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie’s mom, Nancy, The Nurses are filling in our little group text on tho topic. In these times, it’s important to have a tight group of fellow information collectors and analysts, as ALBB does with two local readers on this topic. One reader works in the medical field, so is among nurses who keep a pulse on everything.
The Drey Dossier is also someone to follow for this, who connects a lot of dots and weaves a lot of threads. Meanwhile, here are some videos to catch you up on our leads.
The City of Beacon entered into a contract with Legal Services of the Hudson Valley to provide increased access to Beacon tenants facing eviction. They may also be able to help with sources of rent arrears assistance. Call the paralegal, Steven Mihalik at 845-253-6953 to inquire.
Dutchess County Helpline. Open 24/7 to take your calls, listen, and give you resources.
